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Mary Catherine Fairbanks
May 14, 1922 — February 12, 2018
Mary C. Fairbanks, 95, lived a long and eventful life and died February 12, 2018 at her home in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Born Mary Catherine Moran in Green Bay on May 14, 1922, she married Everitt Edsel Fairbanks (Cotton) on December 18, 1942, right before he went off to serve in the Second World War.
While her husband repaired radar and radios in Europe, Mary joined the war effort as a Rosie the Riveter, building Mustang P51 fighter planes at North American Aviation in Los Angeles and rebuilding machine guns at an aircraft base in Utah.
After raising her family, Mary became an accomplished watercolorist and author. She has three published books and hundreds of short stories, fables, songs, and poems to her credit.
She is mother to seven children: Everitt Michael, deceased, Mary Kathleen, Linda Clare, Francis Edmund, also deceased, John Patrick, Elizabeth Ann, and Clare Eileen. Mary is also grandmother to 10; great grandmother to 15; and honorary mother/grandmother/great grandmother to every family friend who entered her life.
Visitation is Friday, Feb. 16, 2018, from 10am until the Memorial Mass at 11am at Resurrection Catholic Church, 333 Hilltop Drive, Green Bay, with the Most Rev. Robert F. Morneau officiating.
While her husband repaired radar and radios in Europe, Mary joined the war effort as a Rosie the Riveter, building Mustang P51 fighter planes at North American Aviation in Los Angeles and rebuilding machine guns at an aircraft base in Utah.
After raising her family, Mary became an accomplished watercolorist and author. She has three published books and hundreds of short stories, fables, songs, and poems to her credit.
She is mother to seven children: Everitt Michael, deceased, Mary Kathleen, Linda Clare, Francis Edmund, also deceased, John Patrick, Elizabeth Ann, and Clare Eileen. Mary is also grandmother to 10; great grandmother to 15; and honorary mother/grandmother/great grandmother to every family friend who entered her life.
Visitation is Friday, Feb. 16, 2018, from 10am until the Memorial Mass at 11am at Resurrection Catholic Church, 333 Hilltop Drive, Green Bay, with the Most Rev. Robert F. Morneau officiating.
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Friday, February 16, 2018
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